It seems like every other week a game studio is massively laying off employees; sometimes after years of development. What I’m reading is that it’s a quick way to lower expenses and pad the investors’ pockets, flooding the market with developers and reducing their value, to then hire them back a few months later at lower...
Hades II just dropped by SGG, which is basically what y’all are calling for. This system is viable once you’ve had your first quasi-successful game. That first game is the problem though - it’s a massive hurdle. So many groups seek bigger companies to support them. After that, you’re theirs. Especially if you make a hit.
There are also other factors such as running a studio means running a business. If you’re a developer, you might have very little interest in that. So you instead get hired by a company which enables you to get a paycheck as you do the thing you actually enjoy.
Additionally, there is marketing and distribution. Do not underestimate how much connections matter when marketing and distributing your game. And yes, everyone needs to market. Which means labor and cost you need to sort out.
I plugged into ethernet (as wifi w/captive portal does not work for me). I think clearnet worked but I have no interest in that. Egress Tor traffic was blocked and so was VPN. I’m not interested in editing all my scripts and configs to use clearnet, so the library’s internet is useless to me (unless I bother to try a tor...
If you don’t trust it to be entirely accurate then it is ridiculous to act like it is “for the sake of discussion.” Healthy skepticism is absolutely warranted
Dude ffs grow up and just ask in the future. This whole post and defensive posture is so childish. You literally admitted in another comment that you were deliberately opaque about your intentions in order to avoid a fringe concern, which then brought about the result you were trying to avoid.
Like seriously dude. You borderline lied because of a fear of people who are “Ethernet-hostile”? And then got upset when they didn’t know what you were doing when you purposely deceived them? Are you kidding me?
Well, OP side of the story isn’t even that vindicating either. The dude literally admitted in one comment that he all but lied to them about what he was doing, yet he’s mad when they were upset he wasn’t clear with his intentions and started plugging in cat5 without any heads up.
How many times do we need to tell you that you can’t lie about your intentions and then expect people to respect your perceived “rights“? This is like anti-maskers who would walk into places with mask mandates intentionally and then take off their masks just to make a scene and record it for the Internet. You’re pot stirring.
Just ask like a normal human being. For all you know they would’ve said “right this way“ and shown you to a port. You walked in looking for trouble.
They could tactfully include ads, but no one ever tactfully includes ads.
Because they don’t work outside of basically podcasting. And even then many shows stretch “tactfully.”
Additionally, over 60% of American internet users use an adblocker. The Atlantic as a US publication relies heavily on US citizens. They didn’t create that situation, but they have to experience the ramifications.
So “tactful” ads are not an option. You don’t want obtrusive ads that unfortunately are the only ones that vaguely work. You don’t want to pay for it directly. If they went government funded or something it would be used as a cudgel against them forever (look at how NPR gets shit on it randomly, which basically gets a fraction of its funding from government grants and not even formally from the US budget). So functionally no ads, no selling, no subscriptions, no government funding.
The question is how do you expect quality information to be produced if it isn’t paid for? I think it’s terrible we have to think in those terms but as the other person said, that is reality.
Linux is the result of a massive number of people working at their own paces with no deadlines and no expenses other than time and the computer they already own, as well as foundations where people get paid and pay others do tasks. Lots of private companies are also involved, and they exist because of profits.
Quality, relevant journalism has hard costs associated with it and has to move very fast. I’m not even talking about the twitter blitz that leads to sloppiness. I’m saying any and all breaking news. How do you plan on getting any on the ground reporting in Gaza?
What you are suggesting would mean that only those who don’t need an income can participate in the endeavor. Which unfortunately is also the case with Linux - big contributors have to stop all the time, projects die regularly, because “life gets in the way.” It just shifts the problem.
Open source programming and journalism have some parallels I’m sure but this comparison just doesn’t work on many levels.
The Nintendo switch is one of the single most popular consoles of all time and no amount of abuse has driven their fans away so I don’t think this will be the final straw. The only thing that will hurt their next console is if they drop the ball as hard as they did like with Wii-U, which is very unlikely as they are basically signaling they’re just doing a switch v2. Xbox is absolutely shitting the bed right now and sony is figuring out their future given the insane budgets for AAA’s that they have greenlit in the past are clearly no longer sustainable and their live service play has not panned out. The nearest competitor is the steam deck, and I would be very surprised to learn that people are viewing that as in either/or proposition given the experiences and libraries are vastly different.
One of America’s biggest retail chains has announced it will stop selling DVD and Blu-ray discs in-store by 2025. Target, which sells everything from daily groceries to clothes and electronics, has confirmed rumours that it will sell DVDs, Blu-rays and 4K Blu-rays only at specified times of the year as well, as stocking...
Because most people in these businesses are not remotely tech savvy enough to use anything slightly different from the computers they are used to, which for most people is windows. They don’t want to tinker, they don’t want to learn something, so they’re not going to. They want to set it and forget it.
If they hired someone like you to come set it up, they need to feel comfortable editing/modifying it. They’re not going to contract you forever.
Simply put: they want to do a little as possible and they are probably being told from people several levels higher that they will be getting a TV with a computer hooked up to it to handle all their menu. They probably have software or something all set up for it. No one would ever question it, least of all a franchise owner.
On an individual basis, sure, I imagine somebody could and maybe even should do what you’re suggesting.
I don’t know about other phones, but you can turn basically all of that off with a single tap on an iPhone (“raw”). I imagine other phones have ways to adjust those settings as well. It’s hardly a waste of time.
If you shoot your videos in prores it also drastically changes what you can do in post because the color depth is basically what I get out of professional cameras.
So yeah, I get what you mean, modern smart phones are all pretty good at what they do and a lot of them do a ton behind the scenes on your images. But different ones have different features and they do not all look the same. I’m not even sure if any smart phones do ProRes besides the iPhone (it’s an Apple codec)
It may be a poor artist that blames his tools, but a good artist definitely knows the differences between them. No matter how slight they may appear.
They can dial in the exposure time if they want. I usually set it to 10s and then have it do a 2s delay before starting exposure so I can tap and set it down.
I didn’t say it was new I just said you can do it. And yes, it is somewhat of a hybrid, but the point is it gives you a lot more information so you can dial back or increase elements you want.
There is no digital camera in the world that “just takes a picture” so we’re just splitting hairs here anyway. The sensor, processor, etc. “make decisions“ that impact your image. Raw codecs try to capture as much information as possible so that professionals or people with time can go in and select out what they want in their image or mute the things they don’t want.
Valve launches Proton 9.0 with improved game compatibility and more - KitGuru (www.kitguru.net)
Can somebody explain why game makers don't start their own companies together?
It seems like every other week a game studio is massively laying off employees; sometimes after years of development. What I’m reading is that it’s a quick way to lower expenses and pad the investors’ pockets, flooding the market with developers and reducing their value, to then hire them back a few months later at lower...
Bountysource Stole at Least $21,000 From Open Source Developers (boehs.org)
This is why people say the open source ecosystem sucks.
We can dream right
Has ethernet become illegitimate? A librarian flipped out after spotting me using ethernet
I plugged into ethernet (as wifi w/captive portal does not work for me). I think clearnet worked but I have no interest in that. Egress Tor traffic was blocked and so was VPN. I’m not interested in editing all my scripts and configs to use clearnet, so the library’s internet is useless to me (unless I bother to try a tor...
What happened to "You're welcome!" as a response to "Thank You"? It's not even included in the canned answers on an apple watch. Have we as a society abandoned it?
I hear “No problem” far more often.
Rule question (i.ibb.co)
It’s the End of the Web as We Know It (www.theatlantic.com)
All Nintendo-related items are being removed from Garry's Mod's Steam Workshop (steamcommunity.com)
Another hit to physical media as Target lays out plans to ditch in-store DVD and Blu-ray sales (www.whathifi.com)
One of America’s biggest retail chains has announced it will stop selling DVD and Blu-ray discs in-store by 2025. Target, which sells everything from daily groceries to clothes and electronics, has confirmed rumours that it will sell DVDs, Blu-rays and 4K Blu-rays only at specified times of the year as well, as stocking...
Windows needs your help updating (feddit.uk)
a dangerous topic indeed (lemmy.ml)
Comparing my current phone and previous. (aussie.zone)
The realme was super impressive when I got it. But, In comparison the realme isn’t as clear. Glad I got the pixel.
Fallout Show, so bad that no one will remember it in 3 months (fandomwire.com)